calendar •1582 – William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway 1726 – Jonathan Swift gleefully writes to Alexander Pope about initial reactions to the newly published Gulliver’s Travels, including that of an Irish Bishop who called the satire “full of improbable lies.”1965 –Ken Kesey hosts the first “acid test” at the home of Ken “Intrepid Traveler” Babbs. Kesey and Babbs were classmates in the Stanford creative writing program, taught by Wallace Stegner and others – also in the program were Robert Stone, Wendell Berry, and Larry McMurtry.1970 – Fearing that he will not be allowed to return home Alexander Solzhenitsyn writes that he cannot go to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize.